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Science on the frontline as Abdool Karim challenges power at Bio26 South Africa | SA News

Professor Salim Abdool Karim addresses delegates at the Bio26 South Africa Congress in Makhanda. [PIC CREDIT: Valentine Ntusi]
Professor Salim Abdool Karim addresses delegates at the Bio26 South Africa Congress in Makhanda.
[PIC CREDIT: Valentine Ntusi]

By Siqhamo Jama

When the nation’s world-renowned epidemiologist took the stage at the Bio26 South Africa Congress in Makhanda, we expected a pandemic post-mortem and a research-based roadmap forward. We expected charts, data, best practices and policy. What we did not expect was a warning about an entirely different crisis: the Infodemic, a war on truth, orchestrated by those in power. But Professor Salim Abdool Karim did not come to Bio26 to play it…

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